President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the forced deportation of Ukrainians from the Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied by Russia to remote regions of the Russian Federation is carried out in order for them to become a silent labor force there..

Speaking to the Icelandic Parliament, the head of state noted that nature and weather conditions in Ukraine create favorable opportunities for agriculture.

" Look at what the Russian military is doing. Even in such comfortable conditions, they managed to create inferno. For what? Everything is very frank: so that we never have democracy, so that we never have independence. So that our land, our nature can be used against our interests. To make our resources work for a foreign state.

And for our people to be just a silent labor force,"

At the same time, he called on the Icelandic parliamentarians to pay attention to the number of Ukrainian citizens deported to Russia..

" our people are deported to Russia. They were forced to go. They take everything. They take away their documents, deprive them of their means of communication. They are sent to remote regions of a foreign land. Russia. Trying to assimilate by force there. 500 thousand. deported people! This is a large number. And you know, this is more than the total population of your beautiful country,"